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"419" Scam – Advance Fee / Fake Lottery Scam

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Victims never receive this non-existent fortune but are tricked into sending their money to the criminals, who remain anonymous. They hide their real identity and location by using fake names and fake postal addresses as well as communicating via anonymous free email accounts and mobile phones.

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Some comments by the Scam-O-Matic about the following email:

• An email address listed inside this email has been used in a known fraud before.
• The following phrases in this message should put you on alert:
  • "claims agent" (real lotteries do not use a "claim agent" / "fiduciary agent")
  • "cotonou" (a location commonly mentioned in 419 scams)
• This email message is a fake lottery scam. Consider the following facts about real lotteries:
  
  1. They don't notify winners by email.
  2. You can't win without first buying a lottery ticket.
  3. They don't randomly select email addresses to award prizes to.
  4. They don't use free email accounts (Yahoo, Hotmail, etc) to communicate with you.
  5. They don't tell you to call a mobile phone number.
  6. They don't tell you to keep your winnings secret.
  7. They will never ask a winner to pay any fees to receive a prize!
• This email lists free webmail addresses. Use of such addresses is typical for scams. Lotteries, banks and any but the smallest of companies do not normally use such addresses. Criminals use them to anonymously send and receive email at Internet cafes.
  • euroafriclotteryagent@yahoo.fr (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "euroafricloto@terra.es" <euroafricloto@terra.es>
Date: Sat, 27 Jan 2007 03:05:20 +0100 (MET)
Subject: DEAR WINNER:





EURO ARIC LOTTERY INTERNATIONAL.
AWARD NOTIFICATION FROM EUROAFRIC LOTTERY ORGANIZATION
Plot 1009 javanda Hills Akpakpa Cotonou Republic Of Du Benin.
(¡) REFERENCE: 67/80/IPD
( ¡¡)BATCH: EGGS-541-623-782

Finally today 27TH OF JANUARY, the result of winners of the Euro Afric Lottery International E-mail programs held on the 20TH OF DECEMBER 2006 was announced. Your company or your personal e-mail address attached to ticket number 653-908-321-675 with serial main number 345-790-241-671 drew lucky star numbers 34-32-90-43-32 which consequently won in the 2ND category, you have therefore been approved for a lump sum pay out of $860.000.00 usd (Eight hundred and
Sixty Thousand United state Dollars).

CONGRATULATIONS!!!
Selection process was carried out through random selection in our computerized email selection machine (TOPAZ) from a database of over 1,000,000 email addresses drawn from all the continents of the world.
The online draws was conducted by a random selection of email addresses from an exclusive list of 29,031 E-mail addresses of individuals and corporate bodies picked by an advanced automated random computer search from the internet.
No ticket were sold but all email addresses were assigned to different ticket numbers for representation and privacy.
This is to encourage our prominent Microsoft Internet Explorer users all over the world.this is to encourage users to Continues the use of E-mail and non users to try and use emails. Microsoft Electronic Mail Lottery is approved and Licensed by the The International Association of Lotteria ( IAL). And ensure to keep your winning information from the public unitl your winning award is finally credited into your designated account of your choice.
(This is important as a case of double claims will not be entertained.

To claim your winning prize, you should contact the office agent by email for Processing and remittance of your winning funds to you,Email: Dr.Feri Budari At Email Address(euroafriclotteryagent@yahoo.fr )
The Claims agent Officers:
NAME:DR FERI BUDARI.

Remember, all winning must be claimed not later than two weeks, after this date all unclaimed funds will be included in the next stake.Please note in order to avoid unnecessary delays and complications please remember to quote your Reference number and Batch numbers in all correspondence with the claims agent officer.
Furthermore, should there be any change of address do inform our agent as soon as possible.
Congratulations once more from our members of staff and thank you for being part of our promotional program.We hope with part of your winning you will take part in our end of year 5 millions Euro afric International lottery.
Sincerely yours,
MRS,Vera Lucas.
Director Online Euroafric International Promotions Unit/Lottery Co-ordinator.
N.B:
Advise to forward this information to your agent to help you process your payment before the valid date of your payment expiers.
Provide him with the following details, as this will enable him to process and
release of your cash prize without any delay.

Your Full Name................................
Address..........................................
Country..........................................
Age..............................................
Sex..............................................
Phone and fax.................................
Profession.......................................
How much you won...............................

1.All claims are nullified after 14 working days from today.
2.Do inform the claims officer of any change of names or addressess.
3.All winners under the age of 18 are automatically disqualified.










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